- Musictherapy in the
Home with old people , rating and organization.
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The applicative view of musictherapy with old people, offers a variety
of situations as much as from an institutional point of view as from an
applicative case. This operating diversity turns out to be, in my
opinion, a point of force of the discipline. A richness of interests
emerges and an unquestionable effort towards common values of action.
More and more informative channels are opening useful for a cohesion of
intentions, in Italy and in foreign countries. Center of the objective
are obviously old people in their relationship with the sound. In this
international contest My participation will illustrate my activity in
the “Casa di Riposo Rossi Sidoli” near Parma (Italy) a big Home for old
people. Here I’m working with self-sufficienct people, people with
Alzheimer Dementia Parkinson disease or people at the end of life. The
context and the setting is different but there are common objectives:
social integration, activation of rehabilitation of movement through
music, prevention of loss of cognitive skills ,to accompany life with
music until death. This work is organized in agreement with other people
who work in the home. In Compiano we exploit protocols to analyse the
results. In this context In these years we have worked to elaborate
protocol that has one clear development of the different situations in
musictherapy. These protocols are used in others homes in Italy.
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Annetta is a woman that lived in a Home. She was a very religious person
and before entering the home for the olderly “Rossi Sidoli” in Compiano
near Parma (Italy) she lived in a town in the mountains. She was a self-sufficienct
person, she singed and listened to music in the different context of my
work of musictherapy. In these last years when I worked with
musictherapy with different people (with Dementia, Alzheimer ecc)
Annetta came near me and my accordion and participated, intoned songs or
suggested the words. She liked the accordion’s sound and when she was a
young person she danced folk music. But her conditions of health slowly
aggravated and Annetta lived the end of her life in her room in bed.
Few people went into the room, her relatives lived in America and she
wasn’t married. I went beside Annetta’s bed with my accordion and with
improvised music and songs I have accompanied her life until the end. In
this experience Annetta frequently sang one famous song that was about
the separation from the mountains and the mother. She frequently
demanded this song. My work with musictherapy in this situation hasn’t
changed the word of the song but with calibrate use of accordion have
varied the parameters of sound, time, dynamic, and the structure of the
song to adapt to annetta’s situation to accompany her life towards the
silent.
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This experience used the method of “Sonorous Dialogue” with reference to
Humanistic Musictherapy used in Italy.
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